List of shipwrecks in 1889
The list of shipwrecks in 1889 includes some ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1889.
February
7 February
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9 February
- Harvest Home (
United Kingdom): The schooner ran aground at Cardigan. Her four crew were rescued by Lizzie & Charles Leigh Clare (
Royal National Lifeboat Institution). She was on a voyage from Fowey, Cornwall to Runcorn, Cheshire. Harvest Home was refloated on 13 February and taken in to Pwllcam, Cardiganshire.[2]
March
7 March
- Duke of Buccleugh ( United Kingdom): The Eastern Steamship Company 3,099 grt sail and steam cargo ship was wrecked following a collision with the 1,478 ton sailing ship Vandalia ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel. She was en route from Antwerp to Madras. All forty-seven crew of Duke of Buccleugh were lost.[3]
8 March
- Vega ( United Kingdom): The steamship was driven ashore and wrecked near Langton Matravers, Dorset. All 29 people on board were rescued.[4]
16 March
Wrecked ships in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa soon after the storm. The view looks northwestward, with the shattered bow of the German gunboat Eber on the beach in the foreground. The stern of Trenton is at right, with the sunken USS Vandalia alongside. The German gunboat Adler is on her side in the center distance. Trenton 's starboard quarter gallery has been largely ripped away.
- Eber (
Kaiserliche Marine): Wrecked in the Samoan Hurricane of 15–16 March. - Trenton, (
United States Navy): Wrecked in the Samoan Hurricane of 15–16 March. - Vandalia, ( United States Navy): Wrecked in the Samoan Hurricane of 15–16 March.
- Adler ( Kaiserliche Marine): Wrecked in the Samoan Hurricane of 15–16 March.
- Olga ( Kaiserliche Marine): Wrecked in the Samoan Hurricane of 15–16 March.
April
6 April
- Danmark (
Denmark): Foundered in the North Atlantic following the snapping of her propellor shaft. Abandoned and almost submerged, the wreck found on 8 April by the City of Chester ( United Kingdom) at 45°55′N 37°16′W / 45.917°N 37.267°W. A total of 721 passengers and crew saved by the Missouri (
United States).
October
- Llandaff ( United Kingdom): The Welsh collier was wrecked at Land's End, Cornwall (also wrecked on the Cornish coast in October 1899).[5]
- Malta ( United Kingdom): Wrecked at Botallack Head, St Just in Penwith, Cornwall, United Kingdom; vessel was a complete loss but no lives were lost.[6]
- Geographique (
France): Sank after a collision.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Belgian Merchant P-Z" (PDF). Belgische Koopvaardij. Retrieved 1 December 2010.
- ↑ "CARDIGAN & DISTRICT SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICE". Glen Johnson. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
- ↑ "Loss of Duke of Buccleugh". Retrieved 3 September 2013.
- ↑ "Historical List of Shipwrecks at Chesil Beach & from Bridport to Lyme Regis". Burton Bradstock Online. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 31
- ↑ Noall, C. (1969?) Cornish Shipwrecks Illustrated. Truro: Tor Mark Press; p. 23
| Ship events in 1889 | |||||||||||
| Ship launches: | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 |
| Ship commissionings: | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 |
| Ship decommissionings: | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 |
| Shipwrecks: | 1884 | 1885 | 1886 | 1887 | 1888 | 1889 | 1890 | 1891 | 1892 | 1893 | 1894 |
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